Music
Pop music: Jim Belushi, who’ll play the Coach House with the Sacred Hearts, comes to the genre mostly by association.
Jan. 6, 1996
Entertainment & Arts
‘Choral Masterworks’ explores the genre’s worldly allure as well as its spiritual power.
May 15, 2005
Premiere by Pacific Chorale’s composer-in-residence fails to save jumbled Christmas concert with orchestra.
Dec. 19, 2000
A sometime punk rocker infuses the Civil War saga ‘Cold Mountain’ with the sound of Sacred Harp singing.
Nov. 9, 2003
Travel & Experiences
** 1/2 Sintesis, “Orishas,” Milan Latino.
May 30, 1998
Obituaries
DeLois Barrett Campbell and her siblings performed for more than 60 years as the Barrett Sisters, having found a kind of personal salvation in sacred music.
March 17, 2014
Bruce Hornsby’s new album, ‘Camp Meeting,’ marks a foray into the genre that may surprise some fans. For the fusion-loving piano man, it’s nothing new.
Aug. 21, 2007
Philip Glass is surely the best-known composer of art music in America, if not the world, but he is not so surely the best-respected.
Aug. 31, 1999
While Catholic, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim mystics--including Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet--are gathering with scientists next week in Newport Beach for a spiritual conference called “Harmonia Mundi,” a companion evening series has been planned to focus on inspirational music and poetry.
Sept. 27, 1989
The Tallis Scholars phenomenon continues: 12 singers based in England, led by indefatigable Renaissance music specialist Peter Phillips, who tour the world performing nothing but a cappella music from the middle of the last millennium.